زَيْدٌ أَبُوهُ قَائِمٌ
Zayd's father is standing.
Zayd is the outer topic, but the attribute of standing is directly assigned to his father. The report concerns Zayd by way of a related person; it does not say that Zayd himself stands.
«Abūhu» is the inner subject and «qāʾim» its predicate. The whole inner nominal clause is the outer predicate, with «-hu» providing the link. Distinguishing those two levels of predication is the core of sababī analysis.
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When the Predicate Is a Clause: Strengthened Attribution, Causal Predication, and Adverbial Phrases
زَيْدٌ أَبُوهُ قَائِمٌ
Zayd's father is standing.
Zayd is the outer topic, but the attribute of standing is directly assigned to his father. The report concerns Zayd by way of a related person; it does not say that Zayd himself stands.
«Abūhu» is the inner subject and «qāʾim» its predicate. The whole inner nominal clause is the outer predicate, with «-hu» providing the link. Distinguishing those two levels of predication is the core of sababī analysis.